Bernando LaPallo, from Arizona, who died last year aged 114, bathed in OLIVE OIL. He said: “I bathe my feet every night and massage them in olive oil. I’ll take my shoes off right now and my feet are as soft as your face.”

Texan Elizabeth Sullivan entrusts her life to a doctor . . . DR PEPPER. The fizzy drink fan is 105 and drinks three bottles a day. She once said: “Every doctor that sees me says they’ll kill you — but they die and I don’t.”

Kamato Hongo, from Japan, died in 2003, aged 110. She SLEPT for two days at a time, then stayed awake for two.

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Amy Hulmes died in 2001 aged 114, after giving up smoking at the tender age of 84. She said her top tip was to drink four bottles of GUINNESS a night.

The oldest ever Brit, Charlotte Hughes, died in 1993 aged 115. She put her long stretch down to: “a good, honest life and adherence to the Ten Commandments.”

The first Brit known to have lived to 110 was Guernsey’s Margaret Ann Neve, who died in 1903. A newspaper report at the time said she credited her durability to a glass and a half of SHERRY at lunchtime and a weak whisky and water at supper.

Scot Lucy d’Abreu died in 2005 aged 113, after attributing her long life to: “a customary sundowner of BRANDY and dry ginger ale”.

Fellow Scot Annie Knight preferred the national staple of PORRIDGE. She was teetotal all her life and died at home in Aberdeen in 2006 aged 111.

Jessie Gallan, 109: 'Avoiding men and a nice warm bowl of porridge every morning'

Agnes Fenton claims she was prescribed a regime of three BEERS and a shot of Johnnie Walker Blue Label Scotch every day in the 1930s after developing a benign tumour. She has stuck to it every day since and turned 111 in August.

Scott Jessie Gallan, who died last year aged 109, said AVOIDING MEN was the key. She once said: “They’re more trouble than they’re worth. I also made sure I got plenty of exercise, ate a nice warm bowl of porridge every morning and have never gotten married.”

Fish fan Misao Okawa, who was born in 1898, said SUSHI was the key to staying young. She died in 2015, aged 117.

When sweet-toothed Leandra Becerra Lumbreras died last year, she was said to be a staggering 127. But her age could not be officially confirmed. She claimed CHOCOLATE was the key to her record-breaking vitality.